Topic: Question about making a replacement without Discord

Posted under Site Bug Reports & Feature Requests

abel

Member

The guidance for uploading a replacement for a rejected upload says

Alternate method (only preserves favorites, not comments, votes etc.)
1. Upload the replacement image as a new post
2. Flag the old post with "Duplicate or inferior version of another post" and enter the post id for the new post in the provided field

But this evidently cannot be done once the old post is deleted. Is this only meant for cases of replacing a post that wasn't deleted?

abel said:
The guidance for uploading a replacement for a rejected upload says

Alternate method (only preserves favorites, not comments, votes etc.)
1. Upload the replacement image as a new post
2. Flag the old post with "Duplicate or inferior version of another post" and enter the post id for the new post in the provided field

But this evidently cannot be done once the old post is deleted. Is this only meant for cases of replacing a post that wasn't deleted?

A replacement post is just so that the comments(and upvotes and favs) stays in place without having to delete a post with the "duplicate or inferior" flag, that is correct
You can still do that and it would very much align with what has been done on e6(both places) for years, it wouldn't be too much of a problem

Method 1 is super okay, you could attach to the description something like "better version of post #numberID"
Method 2 doesn't work unless the post has not been deleted yet

You can ask here which i can make one for you or someone who has the replacement permission do it for you
https://e6ai.net/forum_topics/596

abel said:
The guidance for uploading a replacement for a rejected upload says

Alternate method (only preserves favorites, not comments, votes etc.)
1. Upload the replacement image as a new post
2. Flag the old post with "Duplicate or inferior version of another post" and enter the post id for the new post in the provided field

But this evidently cannot be done once the old post is deleted. Is this only meant for cases of replacing a post that wasn't deleted?

If the old post is deleted and you have a fixed version you can just upload that as a new post without worrying about flagging the old one as inferior.

I will add that part of the reason to flag non-deleted posts when replacing them is because it will automatically set the replacement post as the flagged post's parent, which allows users & staff to find the replacement more easily & ensures that - if the flagged post is deleted - the deleted post can be automatically replaced in user's favorites & sets (with Transfer on Deletion enabled) and/or receive its sources and/or tags if the janitor decides to transfer any or all of these; this is one of the reason you shouldn't use a chain of parent-child relationships for stuff like comics, & should use a pool or set instead.

Although manually setting the replacement post as the parent for an already-deleted post doesn't have all the same benefit, there's still reason to link the two for staff & users to easily find that relationship.

aacafah said:
Although manually setting the replacement post as the parent for an already-deleted post doesn't have all the same benefit, there's still reason to link the two for staff & users to easily find that relationship.

back in my day we used to put "better version of post #ID" and that was enough